The purpose of this chapter is to provide standards and regulations
for various types of intrusion, burglar, fire and other emergency
alarm devices, whether by direct line, radio, telephone or other means,
actuating a device at the police headquarters of the Borough of Lindenwold
and/or at the Camden County Communications Center in Lindenwold, New
Jersey, and requiring a response thereto by the Police Department,
the Fire District or other municipal agencies.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to any person who
operates, maintains or owns any location requiring a response to any
type of alarm signal. The terms of this chapter shall in no way prohibit
alarm companies from providing service by private source to other
offices within or without the Borough of Lindenwold so long as such
activity is not connected to the alarm console and/or does not require
a police response; except, however, that any person having a premises
protected by any alarm device shall still be responsible for the registration
thereof in accordance with the provisions herein provided.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ALARM CONSOLE
The console or control panel of devices giving a visual or
audio response, or both, and located within the confines of the police
headquarters of the Borough of Lindenwold and/or the Camden County
Communications Center and/or any other official location recognized
by all parties herein.
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm system actuating equipment in the alarm
console or Police Department telephone system providing warning of
intrusion, fire, smoke, flood or other peril.
ALARM DIALER
Any type of automatic telephone dialing device using the
telephone system to transmit an alarm to the Police Department.
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any alarm device or combination of devices installed for
one or more buildings at a location other than the alarm console.
ALARM SYSTEM
The activity of maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering,
replacing, moving or installing, or causing to be maintained, serviced,
repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed, in or on any building,
place or premises, any device designed or used for the detection of
unauthorized entry or for alerting others of the commission of an
unlawful act, or both, and the detection of fire or smoke or any hazards
affecting the safety of citizens and/or their property.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm actuated by inadvertence, negligence or an unintentional
act of someone other than an intruder and includes as well alarms
caused by the malfunctioning of the alarm device or other relevant
equipment, but shall not include alarms created by a malfunction of
the alarm console.
HARD-WIRE ALARM
An alarm system that is wired directly to the alarm console
which will be maintained at the Camden County Communications Center,
Lindenwold, New Jersey, and/or the Lindenwold Borough Police Department
or other location officially recognized by all parties indicated herein.
LOCAL ALARM
Any alarm or device which, when actuated, produces a signal
not connected to the alarm console, such as burglar alarms actuating
bell or siren devices.
PERMITTEE
Any person owning an alarm device or a local alarm within
the scope of this chapter.
PERSON
Includes any natural person, partnership, corporation, association
or any other legal entity.
No person shall use or cause or permit to be used any telephone
device or telephone attachment that automatically selects a telephone
trunk line of the Police Department of the Borough of Lindenwold and
then reproduces any prerecorded message to report any robbery, burglary
or other emergency or relay by human agency a like message without
first having obtained a written permit from the Borough Clerk, and
no person shall install, maintain, use or permit to be used any robbery,
burglary or emergency alarm system which automatically or semiautomatically
terminates in any private establishment or telephone answering service
and which is relayed by the recipient of the alarm by a telephone
call to the Police Department without having first obtained a written
permit from the Borough Clerk.
The Chief of Police may, from time to time, promulgate written
rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the Director of
Public Safety, in order to provide for recordkeeping and efficient
operation and management of said system.
Any person aggrieved by the action of the Police Chief or Borough
Clerk in denying a permit or in the suspension or revocation of any
permit provided for by this chapter may appeal to the Director of
Public Safety of the Borough of Lindenwold by serving written notice
of such appeal upon the Borough Clerk.
[Added 3-16-1987 by Ord. No. 739]
In the event that any subscriber shall have more than two false
alarms in any consecutive thirty-day period, upon the third such false
alarm, he shall be in violation of this chapter and shall be subject
to a fine not to exceed $25 upon conviction in the Municipal Court.
Each succeeding violation within the same thirty-day period shall
be subject to a fine not to exceed $50 upon conviction in the Municipal
Court.
[Amended 3-16-1987 by Ord. No. 739]
Except as otherwise provided, any person, firm or corporation found guilty in the Municipal Court of the Borough of Lindenwold of a violation of the terms of this chapter shall be subject to the penalties as set forth in Chapter
1, §
1-1, of this Code.